According to Statcounter, Windows 11 held a 55.18% market share in October 2025. That share dropped to 53.7% in November and dropped again in December. Now, Windows 11 holds a 50.73% market share.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide
Many are rollback to Windows 10, but Linux is increasing as well.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
I suggest you check out this: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
It is a script to remove a bunch of Microslop… I’m betting on Microsoft re-enabling it unannounced after an update though.
But I’m with you on the Linux bit…
…I use Arch btw…
I’ve ditched Windows completely save a vm for that one piece of hardware that’s stubborn. (Once I have the money I’ll look elsewhere friggin line6 helix)
Debian/Mx
(The debloat thingy sounds neat tho!)
Fair. Technically I’m running Windows in a container… But technically that is also a vm.
That is for this neat remote app fella: https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
Makes it look like Windows applications run on Linux without using full rdp.